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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhaʼ kitāb Futūḥ al-ghayb هاذأ كتاب فتوح الغيب /

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Title

  • Hādhaʼ kitāb Futūḥ al-ghayb

Other Title

  • هاذأ كتاب فتوح الغيب /

Names

  • ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1169 [1755 or 1756]

Headings

  • -  Sufism--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Waqāʼī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Written in Qusṭantīyah [Istanbul, Turkey].
  • -  Paper; light cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords.
  • -  "25. III 1429 = 3.688."
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI 435.2
  • -  Two works of ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī.
  • -  Naskh; 15 lines in written area 14.5 x 8 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-106a.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 3-688.
  • -  Tan leather envelope binding with decorative paper on covers and flap; text in gatherings not attached to binding; binding enclosed in tan case 21 x 16 cm with decorative papers front and back.

Medium

  • 106 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 20.7 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP189.7.Q32 A33 1755

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016404830

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

ʻAbd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī, -1166, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhaʼ kitāb Futūḥ al-ghayb. [1755 or 1756, 1169] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404830/.

APA citation style:

ʻAbd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī, -., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1169) Hādhaʼ kitāb Futūḥ al-ghayb. [1755 or 1756] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404830/.

MLA citation style:

ʻAbd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī, -1166, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhaʼ kitāb Futūḥ al-ghayb. [1755 or 1756, 1169] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016404830/>.